"Sharp, quirky, and occasionally nettlesome", Walking the Berkshires is my personal blog, an eclectic weaving of human narrative, natural history, and other personal passions with the Berkshire and Litchfield Hills as both its backdrop and point of departure. I am interested in how land and people, past and present manifest in the broader landscape and social fabric of our communities. The opinions I express here are mine alone. Never had ads, never will.

March 14, 2007

Past is Prologue

"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players:They have their exits and their entrances;And one man in his time plays many parts..."

"And through this distemperature we see The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose, And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown An odorous chaplet of sweet summer budsIs, as in mockery, set."

"A sad tale's best for winter: I have one of sprites and goblins"

"Was ever woman in this humour woo'd?Was ever woman in this humour won?"

"Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind."

"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, findstongues in trees, books in the running brooks,sermons in stones, and good in everything."